Jon Favreau

We don't care about the Strait of Hormuz.

We don't care that the nuclear material is still in Iran.

We don't care that the regime is still in place because it's a new regime, according to Donald Trump.

We've destroyed their military.

So why are we threatening to bomb them into the Stone Age?

And why are we continuing to hope that they will make a deal?

What is the deal?

Why did they do this speech, I was wondering?

Yeah.

I get that he sounds like an idiot all the time when he's off the cuff and does his thing.

He does the weave and he has got all those crazy tics.

But this was a primetime address that he was reading off the prompter.

You imagine that some number of people in the White House, perhaps in the State Department, the Defense Department, other agencies took a look at the speech.

And it just was like, I mean, the speech was all over the place.

The written prepared speech was all over the place.

What the fuck were they doing?

Right.

And I'm sure they're hearing from because, you know, someone was talking to Steve Bannon before the speech and he wasn't right on this, but he was like, yeah, the message is we're going to wrap this up.

It's over.

Like he's probably hearing from people in his base or his orbit that like you got to you got to communicate that this thing's almost over.